Example sentences of "mean [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Same way , one of the words about I mean I 'll just read it to you . |
| 2 | You said it was completely confidential but I mean I would just say well it 's , it 's between Friends Provident and yourself end of story . |
| 3 | Erm that 's I mean I would really recommend that you make the time . |
| 4 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 5 | I mean I would never buy it , but I would try not to buy anything . |
| 6 | I mean I 'd rather leave it if I can until it does |
| 7 | I know they all have but I mean I 'd rather have the ordinary names and then |
| 8 | Well no I 'm not actually back to the centimetre cost I do n't agree with the centimetre argument er the centimetre argument I mean I 'd rather have one good solid paragraph which |
| 9 | I mean I 'd rather have tea , sorry , yeah . |
| 10 | but I mean I 'd rather have a Calibre than that definitely |
| 11 | Well I think that 's quite I mean I 'd probably knock him down to a hundred anyway . |
| 12 | Well I mean I 'd certainly use it . |
| 13 | And I think in the past there there actually been music in in foyer bar erm yeah I mean I 'd certainly look at that I mean . |
| 14 | ‘ I mean I 'd really like to , but I 've already been shouldered out of the Nativity play . |
| 15 | Bu I mean I 'd only advise those if you have like er you know , children with grubby hands and |
| 16 | Alan what I I do n't know the answer to what you 're proposing I really do n't know the answer and er I mean I can only go on the , my , my experiences and my experiences are I 've never ever consciously or not aware of ever having bought any as a result of |
| 17 | I think that 's true what Yona says you know it it is Cos you know I the sort of the political people of the town tend to be councillors who are er men mainly and set in their ways and think that because they 've got the label councillor behind you know b front of their name that they 're they are for life you know it 's And they 're sort of respectable inverted commas members of the community and you know and I mean I hope that out of out of all this I mean it 's it 's a shame it has to happen in such a desperate situation you know because I mean none of us can really feel glad that Because to be on strike is I mean each day is is hard I 'm sure for well I mean I can only say because to be close to people on strike it 's quite a unique thing really for me and i you become so involved and close to people and you realize how hard it is for them . |
| 18 | Well I mean I can always collect it Thursday night . |
| 19 | I mean I can still see my hand moving |
| 20 | ‘ I could never do that to her , ’ I said , ‘ or perhaps I mean I could never do it to myself . |
| 21 | I mean I could definitely do with these sides done . |
| 22 | so I mean you would still 've got your golf thing out |
| 23 | Yes , I mean you may well have seen on the television , some of the first film of some of the camps , that the first sort of rioting was about water . |
| 24 | It 's obviously a show , and I mean you could well imagine that in the old days you need horses were really used to do a full day 's work , they did n't have quite such er nice clean tack a as these ones . |
| 25 | That 's , that 's Now when you 've got an A squared minus B squared , you can factorize that I mean you could just do that on your calculator , and do it in one go , but it 's quite easy to do it as three point O one . |
| 26 | I mean you could even write some fairly simple test programs in fact . |
| 27 | I mean you could always go away on holiday , if you 'd like . |
| 28 | I mean you could never load er , you could never load a hopper down to its plimsoll mark with peat , that was so light and cos you could n't put any more in so you used to have to take it to sea perhaps we we well you would call it half loaded . |
| 29 | I mean , to die is not absolutely correct there is it , because I mean you could actually have a pay-out on critical illness , which happens earlier . |
| 30 | I mean you could hardly pass two buses on it then . |